A person with her eye relaxed looks through a diffraction grating at a distant monochromatic point source of light.The slits of the grating are vertical.She sees:
A)one point of light
B)a hazy horizontal strip of light of the same color as the source
C)a hazy strip of light varying from violet to red
D)a sequence of horizontal points of light
E)a sequence of closely spaced vertical lines

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The diffraction grating causes the light to diffract and form multiple orders of maxima, resulting in a sequence of horizontal points of light due to the vertical slits.

A Person with Her Eye Relaxed Looks Through a Diffraction